Daily Digest for 94-20-12
Dear Friends,
In just a few days, Americans will be celebrating Christmas -- and in
a few more , Russians will celebrate the Russian Orthodox
Christmas. And, of course, we all share celebration of the New Year.
This is a most special time of the year - and we thought it would be
interesting if subscribers to this list shared with each other how they
celebrate and spend time during this season.
We would like to publish a "special holiday issue" of the digest later this
week and invite each of you to send any special greetings, perhaps a
description of how you and your family and friends celebrate this season,
any favorite songs, poems, hopes for the new year (whatever you like!) . .
We'll compile all this into a digest and also create a special
'holiday page' on the Friends and Partners WWW server. For those with
capability and interest to share pictures or graphics, please feel free to
ftp them to solar.rtd.utk.edu in directory /incoming/holidays (we will
include them on our holiday page). Our thanks to Dr. Peter Palms for the
first message (included in this digest)!
We know this is a *very* busy time of year for most folks -- but, if you
have time, please send whatever you wish to "friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu".
Thank you!
Table of Contents
WHAT'S NEW . . .
#01-20 December 94 Lord Perry Distance Education Award Acceptance Speech
by Dr. Tak Utsumi
#02-20 December 94 Chechnya News
RECENT EMAIL . . .
#01-20 December 94 Sender: RCCROCKETT@life.uams.edu
Subject: looking for lena
#02-20 December 94 Sender: Valerie Sadovsky (vsadovsk@dev3.ctc.edu)
Subject: Address needed
#03-20 December 94 Sender: ftevn@VMS.AURORA.ALASKA.EDU
(Elena Nikitina - Houle)
Subject: Russian videos
#04-20 December 94 Sender: "James P. Rybak (jrybak@mesa5.mesa.colorado.edu)
Subject: Travel Agent Information
#05-20 December 94 Sender: nedelsky@inst.augie.edu (Michael Nedelsky)
Subject: Russian courses
#06-20 December 94 Sender: "Straight, Earl"
(STRAIGHTE@mhs3.mhs.mcs.k12.wv.us)
Subject:
#07-20 December 94 Sender: Sarah_Lum@Brown.edu
Subject: Reading Russian fonts on NCSA Mosaic or other
WWW programs
#08-20 December 94 Sender: MCOLVILL@carleton.edu
Subject: Looking for products from Russia
#09-20 December 94 Sender: "Jim Cashel" (cashel@eurasia.org)
Subject: Novosibirsk Computer Medicine
#10-20 December 94 Sender: Lynette Wroblewski (liss@itsa.ucsf.EDU)
Subject: "The Islets of Our Memory"
#11-20 December 94 Sender: Peter Palms (palmbank@pnw.net)
Subject: Merry Christmas!
#12-20 December 94 Sender: "Charles Hosford, Project Harmony"
(pharmony@SOVUSA.COM)
Subject: from PH VT
#13-20 December 94 Sender: "Deborah L. Smith"
(DSMITH@A1.UTMEM.EDU)
Subject: Sources of Funding in the Newly Independent States
APPENDIX: LISTSERV address & basic procedures
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WHAT'S NEW . . .
* Recently, Dr. Takeshi Utsumi received the prestigious Lord Perry Award
for Excellence in Distance Education. This is the highest award given
for work in the fast growing field of Distance Education and was given
to Dr. Utsumi on November 1, 1994 at the conference of the University of
the World in San Antonio, Texas. We wish to congratulate Dr. Utsumi on
this well deserved award and express our gratitude to him for his
participation in "Friends and Partners". He was one of our first
subscribers and has been a good friend to us during the past year.
We reprint his acceptance speech for this award on the "Global
University" page (which is accessible from the "Education" page).
* A special archive of news items from various media sources pertaining
to Russia's breakaway southern region Chechnya. Thanks to John Gerber
and Tammy Benshoof for putting this together!
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E-MAIL POSTINGS . . .
Please continue to send your e-mail to friends@solar.rtd.utk.edu.
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Sender: RCCROCKETT@life.uams.edu
Subject: looking for lena
hello lena,
my name is robert. i have tried to email to email to a lena.
i would like to be her penpal. when i tried to send to that address,
i got an error "unknown user." if you are there lena, then send me an
email so i will have your email address. my address is:
rccrockett@life.uams.edu
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Sender: Valerie Sadovsky (vsadovsk@dev3.ctc.edu)
Subject: Address needed
Hi all,
Could anyone give me a clue of how to reach prof. Danielova at Biological
Institute of University of Erevan? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Valerie
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Valerie Sadovsky E-Mail: vsadovsk@dev3.ctc.edu
Communications Technology Center Phone: (206)881-4478
3860 159th Avenue N.E., Suite 150 FAX: (206)881-4470
Redmond, WA 98052-6304 SCAN: (206)294-4478
Never forget: 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.
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Sender: ftevn@VMS.AURORA.ALASKA.EDU (Elena Nikitina - Houle)
Subject: Russian videos
Dear Friends!
I am trying to collect good Russian movies, video programs, documentaries,
etc. If anybody has any good ideas, or if you know reliable stores that sell
them, I will be looking forward to here from you. I already have around 35
videos and will be happy to exchange them.
Elena Houle
e-mail ftevn@aurora.alaska.edu
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Sender: "James P. Rybak (jrybak@mesa5.mesa.colorado.edu)
Subject: Travel Agent Information
I have been to Eastern Europe and Russia several times but "on the beaten
path" (i.e., with guided tours). Now I would like to plan a trip which
would allow me to get "off the beaten path" to find out what the
countries and people are really like. Does anyone know of a travel agent
who can help me arrange transportation to and lodging in some of the smaller
cities in Eastern Europe and, particularly, in Russia without being part
of a formal tour.
My email address is: jrybak@mesa5.mesa.colorado.edu
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Jim Rybak
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Sender: nedelsky@inst.augie.edu (Michael Nedelsky)
Subject: Russian courses
I have seen announcements for summer Russian language programs in Russia
at Moscow State University and through KASSI international in Novosibirsk.
I would like to hear from anyone who has first-hand experience (preferably
as a student) in one of these programs. What were your impressions? How
good did you find the program? Although the programs both look good, I am
nervous about committing a whole summer to study at a program about which I
only know what the program's providers have to say. I would also like to
hear from people who have spent the summer in Russia in an intensive Russian
language program at some other institution. Give me your frank impressions.
I need to make a final decision by the end of January, so please get back to
me as soon as possible if you know anything about this kind of program.
Thank you,
Fr. Michael Nedelsky
Psychology Department
Augustana College
Sioux Falls, SD 57197
(605) 336-5459
e-mail nedelsky@inst.augie.edu
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Sender: "Straight, Earl" (STRAIGHTE@mhs3.mhs.mcs.k12.wv.us)
Subject:
[NOTE: we're just now printing this nice message from Earl Straight
which was sent in November in response to message about the IRC
session we held in Prague. We thought Earl's message might
give other readers some ideas . .]
Greg,
I'm resending this message. I did get on line for the "chat." It was
fun. I still thought you might like to see some of the projects that
we have done with the help of Friends and Partners.
Keep up the good work.
Earl
Forwarded Message Follows - - - - - - -
Greg,
I am resending my frist message. Somehow it got sent before I had
a chance to finish. I'm very interested in participating in the first
session on Tuesday morning, November 8 at 10:30 a.m. EST. My name is
Earl Straight and I am the journalism department chair at Morgantown
High School in Morgantown, West Virginia USA.
My school now has one of its computer labs hooked up to Internet.
The students and faculty have been exploring all the wonderful
materials available. Another teacher (social studies) and I have been
using Friends and Partners a great deal; not only to communicate but
also to help our students retrieve information. My Visual
Communications class just completed two assignments to gain
experience in using Internet. Each student first telneted to F&P and
under the NEWS section went to the St. Petersburg newspaper and after
selecting a news story pulled it back to their computers. The second
project was to investigate three news topics (the decline of the
ruble, Queen Elizabeth's visit to Russia, and the US/UN reactions to
Russia wanting some of the sanctions lifted on Iraq.) Again, each
student had to telnet to solar.rtd.utk.edu and under the NEWS section
research each of these topics using at least four of the news
agencies available. A class discussion followed to find out what was
gathered. They LOVED the project.
Another project my students spearheaded was the making of banners
and gifts for the two youngsters in the Children's Hospital in
Pittsburgh, Pa.; the 10-year-old Ukrainian girl, who had the tumor
removed, and the 8-year-old boy from St. Petersburg, who was brutally
attacked. I delivered the gifts to the youngsters, both of which are
doing very well in their recovery. Thanks to Friends and Partners we
found out about these beautiful children.
Hope these projects will help you at the conference.
Sincerely,
Earl N. Straight Jr.
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Sender: Sarah_Lum@Brown.edu
Subject: Reading Russian fonts on NCSA Mosaic or other WWW programs
Thanks to F&P for "Russification of Macintosh" announcement. I still,
however, am having trouble accessing Russian text on WWW.
I use a Mac and have KOI-8 fonts installed which I use locally but
cannot use to read WWW pages brought up via NCSA Mosaic (my WWW browser).
I go to "styles" select KOI-8. The fonts on my screen change but are still
illegible. My quesiton to F&P readers using Macintosh:
1. Has anyone been able to read Relcom and other Russian site pages in
Russian using a WWW program, and if so - how?
Thanks very much for your help.
Sarah_Lum@Brown.edu
NOTE: You can use MacWeb with the Mac KOI8 fonts to read
WWW pages. You can obtain the 2.2alpha version of MacWeb at
anonymous ftp site: solar.rtd.utk.edu in directory:
/pub/www/macweb.
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Sender: MCOLVILL@carleton.edu
Subject: Looking for products from Russia
Dear friends,
I am writing to you once again from Peter the Great Coat Company in
Minneapolis. I am looking to expand our contacts in Russia - I bet some of you
have friends in the business world in Russia.
We are looking for sources of products to import to the United States.
We would be interested in a variety of items including: Bits and stirrups of
very high quality (old world craftsmanship) for horses, ornamental
knives/daggers of high quality, military clothing/hats/belts and fur hats. We
are putting together a catalog and are looking for classy items of all types.
Any information would be appreciated.
Also, are any of your aware of other forums related to Russia that address
commercial/international trade issues?
Thanks you for your help. I have enjoyed hearing from those of you respond to
my earlier message about our jackets.
Take care!
Mark
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Sender: "Jim Cashel" (cashel@eurasia.org)
Subject: Novosibirsk Computer Medicine
Dear Colleagues:
The following is a message from Sarah Lindemann, an American working
in Novosibirsk, Russia. She requests information about on-line
information resources involving medicine to assist a newly-formed
medical information unit in the city. Novosibirsk is a
high-technology center of Russia that just now is establishing strong
information links to other countries. Please forward this message to
those who might assist. Thank you.
Jim Cashel
Eurasia Foundation
Washington, DC
******************
The Siberian Informational Medical Association (SIMA) was founded by
Doctors Serge Vitjazev and Peter Larionov to take advantage of the
vast amount of information currently available on the Internet. The
purpose of SIMA is to provide free access to the latest medical
information to local Doctors, Hospitals and Institutes doing research.
In addition it will serve as an outlet for medical researchers here to
share information concerning medical, research and technological
projects in development in Siberia.
The need for such a Center is great. Novosibirsk is the capital of
Siberia with a population of 1.5 million. For the medical community
one of the greatest obstacles to providing medical care has been the
difficulty in receiving the most up to date information available
through journals and computer networks. SIMA would be a major
step in solving this problem. The goal is to monitor and catalogue
available information, join on-line discussions groups and establish
contact between various medical research projects here with their
counterparts in the West.
The organizing committee of SIMA consists of 8 people working on a
volunteer basis. With very limited resources they have obtained the
equipment, a location for the Center and access to electronic mail.
However, in order for the Center to operate effectively and
achieve the full range of goals they have established it is necessary
to seek sources of both financial and information support. If your
organization funds or has information for such projects or, you know
of organizations that do, SIMA would appreciate hearing from you. In
response to any inquiry they will provide a full project proposal.
At this time they can be contacted through my office at the following
e-mail address Sarah@ECHO.Nsk.Su. Thank you for your time and
consideration.
Sincerely,
Sarah Lindemann
President
ECHO, Inc.
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Sender: Lynette Wroblewski (liss@itsa.ucsf.EDU)
Subject: "The Islets of Our Memory"
ANNOUNCEMENT
Sozidanie Foundation is proud to offer a new full-length (61 min.) historical
documentary color video film THE ISLETS OF OUR MEMORY available in
English and Russian versions. Author and director Tamara Popova is known
by her other movies "Revival Isles" and "Rise Again, Mighty Russia!", as
well as her novels "Good and Evil: To Each the Memory Deserved" and "A
Thorny Way".
"Nature has made only one Russia, and no other country similar to it," Peter
the Great is known to have said, and this film reaffirms this statement.
The film shows Moscow in all its grandeur and versatility of historical sites
with a particular focus on the development of the royalty and
Christianity. The royal family is depicted through the compelling lives
of Tsar Alexis (father of Peter the Great) and Tsarina Anna among
others, with an emphasis on their contribution to the notion of charity.
The history of the Orthodox religion in Russia is illustrated through the
Byzantine Hall, access to which is very restricted and details are
unknown to most, through The Trinity Monastery of St.Sergius, shown in
its splendor beauty and holiness, and through other priceless treasures
and "islets of our memory".
Without pretension to cover all, but opening vast historical material
from the past including rare documents of Prince Dolgoduky, Emperor
Nicholas I, and others, the film represents an exceptional historical
research. It also shows current cultural and spiritual lives and concerns
of the intelligencia, Cossacks, and descendants of nobleman, as well as
the Russian Orthodox Church and the Patriarch Alexis II.
The film presents unique episodes of a commemoration liturgy for
Sts.Cyril and Methodius at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Dormition in
the Moscow Kremlin, where all Russian Tsars and Emperors were crowned.
Incredible camera work and distinct emotional narration provide an extremely
informative presentation on a background of authentic Russian music.
The film is created for educational and cultural centers, schools and
colleges, as well as religious organizations. All interested in history
will find this document outstanding.
If you are further interested in knowing about the film, author, purchase
opportunities or distribution rights, please contact me. If you know of any
other parties interested in this film please pass this message on to them.
I will be happy to be of any service,
Dmitri Lissin
Internet: liss@itsa.ucsf.edu
CompuServe: 75471,536
Fax: (415) 255-9741
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Sender: Peter Palms (palmbank@pnw.net)
Subject:
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Let us have faith and confidence that we have the power to make the world
the kind of place that we want it to be and that it was meant to be. Let
us join together to reject, by our every action, anything that stands in
the way of this. For we, the people of this planet, are the world and we
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Palms & Company, Inc. Investment Bankers
Russian Venture Capital Fund of America
Ukrainian Venture Capital Fund of America
United States Interbank Currency Exchange
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Sender: "Charles Hosford, Project Harmony" (pharmony@SOVUSA.COM)
Subject: from PH VT
DATE: December 14, 1994
TO: Members of the RUSAG Network
Email:Rusag-L@umdd.umd.edu
FROM: Charlie Hosford, Director
Project Harmony
6 Irasville Common
Waitsfield, Vermont 05673
Email: pharmony@sovusa.com
Tel: (802) 496-4545
Fax: (802) 496-4548
Dear Members of the RUSAG Network,
Greetings from Project Harmony. We have recently completed
a two-way agricultural exchange program between Vermont
and the Republic of Karelia in Russia. The Karelian delegation
traveled to Vermont in the spring of 1994 and the Vermont
delegation went to Karelia in September of 1994. Included in
the Vermont delegation were two people who are interested in
establishing an ongoing program with Karelia and the School of
Agriculture at Petrozavodsk State University. These two
people are associated with the University of Vermont
Extension System.
+Don McFeeters, Chairman of the UVM Extension System
+Rick LeVitre, Agronomy specialist and pesticide education
coordinator for the UVM Extension System.
Our two-phase Vermont-Karelia Agricultural Exchange Program
was supported by a USIA grant.
We are interested in any information that might guide us
towards:
+Establishing an institutional linkage program between
Petrozavodsk State University and the University of Vermont
focused on the schools of agriculture.
+Finding grant funds that would support this institutional
linkage.
If anyone out there has some information about grant sources
or how other universities have established this sort of linkage,
we would certainly appreciate hearing from you.
Project Harmony has been well served by the information we
receive from the RUSAG NETWORK. We pass on some of this
information to our four (4) Russian offices in Petrozavodsk, St.
Petersburg Moscow and Tomsk. Many thanks to those who
gather and distribute this information.
We look forward to hearing from some network members
regarding our request.
With appreciation,
Charles Hosford, Director/Project Harmony
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Sender: "Deborah L. Smith 528-5587" (DSMITH@A1.UTMEM.EDU)
Subject: Sources of Funding in the Newly Independent States
Sources of Funding in the Newly Independent States
COMPILED BY WORLD LEARNING INC. -- This information was compiled by
Scott Altmann and Margot Mininni who drew on many resources, among
them: The CDC Compendium, the Business Information Service for the NIS
(BISNIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce, USAID, and information
sent to World Learning's NIS office.
_________________________________________________________________
The PVO/NIS Project realizes there are a lot of worthy projects still
unfunded. Therefore, we would like to present a partial list of
alternative funding sources. It is important to keep in mind that such
data is meant to serve as a point of departure for your own research
and is evolving and always subject to change.
The sources of funding for activities in the NIS are many and varied.
Unless you know where to look and precisely what you are looking for
it can be confusing. In fact, in an ever-changing NIS environment, it
is hard to know where funding is with any precision. There are many
PVOs looking to tap into funds in the sectors of health, the private
sector, democratic reform, exchanges and training, and women's health.
INTERACTION, an association of U.S. PVOs, is seeking to coordinate and
concentrate funding priorities for the NGO community in these sectors.
The following provides an overview of some of these groups, their
activities, and where available the $ amount of grants they may be
distributing.
PRIVATE
Democratization
The Eurasia Foundation
1527 New Hampshire, NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 234-7370 phone
(202) 234-7377 fax
NIS Role: Economic and democratic reform. Funding: $16 million per year,
$100,000-$125,000 grants to American organizations/ $1,000-$25,000 NIS
organizations
The National Endowment for Democracy
1101 15th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 293-9072 phone
(202) 223-6042 fax
NIS Role: Strengthen free/democratic institutions through U.S. private
institutions
CROSS-SECTORAL
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Public Information Office
5520 N. Magnolia Avenue
Chicago, IL 60640-1307
(312) 728-6996 phone
(312) 728-6886 fax
NIS Role: Support scientific and intellectual communities. Funding: $9 million,
3 years, initiated in 1992; research, work
grants, some grants to Russian organizations
Pew Charitable Trusts
2005 Market Street
Suite 1700
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 575-9050 phone
NIS Role: Improve quality of life; educational, advocacy, and research
activities
Soros Foundation 888 7th Avenue, Ste 1901 New York, NY 10106 (212)
757-2323 phone (212) 974-0367 fax NIS Role: Improve quality of life; work
in media, government, legal environment , and education
The Ford Foundation 320 E. 43rd Street New York, NY 10017 (212) 573-5000
phone (212) 599-4584 fax NIS Role: Contribute to well-being of the public
with funding for women's issues
Rockefeller Foundation
1133 Ave. of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
(212) 869-8500 phone
NIS Role: Confront causes of human suffering; past grants for both environ-
mental research and conference/workshop attenders
CIVIL SOCIETY BUILDING
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
1200 Mott
Foundation Bldg.
Flint, MI 48502-1851
(313) 238-5651 phone
NIS Role: Quality of life issues; areas of environ- ment, institution building,
political and economic reform
Rockefeller Bros. Fund
1290 Avenue of Americas
New York, NY 10104
(212) 373-4200 phone
(212) 315-0996 fax
NIS Role: Improve quality of life; promote global interdependence
SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
The Fund for Democracy and Development
2033 M St., NW Ste. 506
Washington, DC 20036
NIS Role: Credit to small businesses and training to commercial banks; assist
defense related conversion
HUMAN RIGHTS
Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
218 East 18th Street
New York, NY 10003
(212) 475-1137 phone
NIS Role: human rights through areas of democratic development, refugee support
ADVOCACY
Smith Richardson Foundation
60 Jessup Street
Westport, CT 06880
(203) 222-6222 phone
(203) 222-6282 fax
NIS Role: Grants to influence public policy and international affairs
John Merck Fund 11 Beacon Street Suite 1230 Boston, MA 02108 (617)
723-2932 phone NIS Role: promote disarmament, support Helsinki watch.
Funding: grants from $500 to $775,000
ENVIRONMENT
ISAR (formerly the Institute for Soviet-American Relations)
1601 Connecticut, NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 387-3034 phone
(202) 667-3291 fax
NIS Role: Environmental protection. Funding: Sowing the Seeds of Democracy, $1
million: small discretionary grants; Joining Forces for the Environment, $1
million: up to $75,000 per grant
WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Global Fund for Women 2480 Sand Hill Rd., Suite 100 Menlo Park, CA 94025
(415) 854-0420 phone (415) 854-8050 fax NIS Role: Women's Projects.
Funding: $500 to $10,000 grants to NIS organizations
ECONOMY BUILDING
The World Bank Group
Room H 2007
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433
(202) 473-8261 phone
Attn: Mr. Westen
NIS Role: Financial and tech. assistance; opportunities for U.S. companies
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
(44) 71-338-6569 phone
(44) 71-338-6487 fax
NIS Role: Democracy building; advice, loans, debt guarantees
US Government
PRIVATIZATION
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
International Trade Administration
Special American Business Internship Training Program (SABIT)
Room 3413
Washington, DC 20230
(202) 482-0073 phone
(202) 482-2443 fax
NIS Role: U.S. market development/business promotion; intern placement in U.S.
ALSO Consortia of American Businesses in the NIS (CABNIS)
200 Daingerfield Road
Alexandria, VA 22314
(703) 684-1080 phone
(301) 652-0141 phone
NIS Role: Foster U.S. commercial presence through business consortia Funding:
$500,000 grants
U.S. Small Business Administration
Office of International Trade, Room 6114
409 3rd Street, SW
Washington, DC 20416
800 827-5722 phone
(202) 205-7064 fax
NIS Role: Assistance to U.S. businesses to develop export markets
ECONOMY BUILDING
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
1100 New York Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20527 (202) 336-8799 phone
800-424-6742 phone
(202) 408-9589 fax
NIS Role: Economic growth through U.S. private investment; loans, investment
insurance/ services, project development
Export Import Bank
ExImbank of the US
811 Vermont Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20571
(202) 535-9664 phone
(202) 566-7524 fax (Insurance)
(202) 566-8208 phone
(202) 566-7524 fax (Guarantees and loans)
NIS Role: Insurance and loans to banks and enterprises to promote U.S. exports
U.S. Trade and Development Agency
SA-16, Rm. 309
Washington, DC 20523 (703) 875-4357 phone
(703) 875-4009 fax
NIS Role: Grants for U.S. exports which promote major development projects
Sectors: oil and gas, transportation, defense conversion, health, power plants
and distribution systems, electronics
CIVIL SOCIETY/ DEMOCRACY/ MEDIA RELATIONS
U.S. Information Agency USIA, Rm. 751 301 4th Street, SW Washington, DC
20547 (202) 619-5057 phone (202) 619-5958 fax NIS Role: Democratic reform
via exchanges, internships, training activities, an d information
projects. Funding: FY '94 figures unavailable at this time, however in FY
'93 $97.35 million allotted of which $40 million came from Freedom Support Act
National Endowment for the Arts, International Activities Office
1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Rm 528
Washington, DC 20506
(202) 682-5422 phone
(202) 682-5602 fax
NIS Role: Promote U.S. artists and art groups through international exchange
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Rm 4079 SUSDA/FAS/EC
Washington, DC 20250
(202) 720-4274 phone
(202) 690-0727 fax
NIS Role: Commercial export and food aid programs through loan guarantees,
some monetization programs, etc; promote agriculture
U.S. Dept. of Defense
(202) 783-3238 (CBD for contracts announcements)
NIS Role: nuclear dis- mantlement; aid to demobilized soldiers/ families,
housing, defense conversion, job retraining. Funding: $979 million (FY '93
supplemental)
U.S. Agency for International Development
A.I.D./NIS Task Force
320 21st Street NW
Washington, DC 20523
(202) 647-9950 phone
NIS Role: React to political/ econ. change in developing democracies. Funding:
$2.5 billion total of which $704 million FY '94 and $1.8 billion FY '93
(supplemental)
USAID NIS TASK FORCE PROJECTS/ OFFICES FOR 1994
Office of Emergency and Humanitarian Assistance (A.I.D.)
Don Eller (202) 736-6481
Alan Silva (202) 647-7614
Office of Energy, Environment, and Technology (A.I.D.)
Energy $254 million Contact: Edvard Markset (202) 736-4405
Environment $73 million Contact: James Bever (202) 736-4407, Energy-
Environment, Commodity Import Program $125 million
Office of Economic Restructuring (A.I.D.)
Economic Restructuring $50 million, Contact: Jane Barden (202)
647-2808
Housing $190 million
Trade and Investment $365 million, Contact: Raghawendra Dwivdey (202)
647-2809
Office of Private Sector Initiatives (A.I.D.)
Private Sector $425 million Contact: Greg Huger (202) 736-4410
Privatization $125 million Hans Shrader (202) 736-4806
Enterprise Fund $250 million, Contact: Jean Hacken (202) 736-4414
Office of Democratic Initiatives, Health, and Human Resources(A.I.D.)
Special Initiatives $151 million, Contacts: Regina Coleman, (202)
647-5876 Bryant George (202)736-4264
Health $109 million
Women's Health Initiative $10 million, Contact: Lee Hougen (202)
736-7760
Democratic Reform $82 million, Contact: Kris Loken (202) 736-4267
Exchanges and Training (A.I.D.) $225 million Contact: Thomas Chapman
(202) 647-7751
Food Systems (A.I.D.) $48 million Contact: Loretta Williams (202)
736-4418
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For foundations contact: the Citizens Democracy Corps (CDC), (202)
872-0933 or 1-800-394-1945; or The Foundation Center, (202) 331-1400
(DC), (212) 620-4230 (NY)
The BISNIS hot line for those interested in area business developments
(202) 482-4655. Bids and contracts advertised in Commerce Business
Daily (CBD) (202) 783-3238
This information was compiled by Scott Altmann and Margot Mininni who
drew on many resources, among them: The CDC Compendium, the Business
Information Service for the NIS (BISNIS) of the U.S. Department of
Commerce, USAID, and information sent to World Learning's NIS office.
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